Fergus Linley-Mota

Fergus leads the Dialogue on Technology Project (DoT), the Centre for Dialogue’s flagship initiative on artificial intelligence (AI). Through 2024/25, he is developing programming to convene both expert and public stakeholders around AI's social and political impacts, with the goals of fostering evidence-based community participation and supporting policy development through targeted dialogue in this area.

Fergus comes to DoT from years of work in multi-stakeholder dialogue, including as co-founder and program coordinator (later advisor) of the Centre’s Cities and Climate Initiative, which convenes stakeholders from across levels of government and civil society to support multi-level climate governance in Canada, and at international gatherings like COP. He has also held research roles focusing on Canadian democratic culture, digital disinformation, and more recently on the relationship between emerging technology and politics. He is most fascinated by 'in-between' spaces – particularly at the intersection of nature and politics, and technology and society – and much of his work and studies have been focused on exploring and driving change in these areas.

Fergus holds a BA from SFU's School of International Studies and an MSc from the University of Oxford, where he focused on the intersection of global politics and technology.